Among its planned activities, RDFRS will finance research into the psychology of belief and religion, finance scientific education programs and materials, and publicize and support secular charitable organizations.
On 2 April, 2007, an online shop was launched on the Foundation website, with Growing Up in the Universe -- a DVD of lectures from 1991 -- the first release on sale.
As of 14 September, 2007, it has been approved for non-profit status in the United States and United Kingdom. In the US, this means that a taxpayer who donates to RDFRS is entitled to apply to the IRS for a tax refund. UK donors can complete a gift aid form to enable the foundation to claim back the tax on their donation.
Theist author Marion Ledwig suggests that the foundation may have been set up as an atheist counterpart to the John Templeton Foundation, an organization which Dawkins has publicly criticized for corrupting science, especially in The God Delusion. Dawkins had in TED talk, prior to writing The God Delusion, called out for the need for an "anti-Templeton" to step up, saying that if his books sold better, he would do that himself.
Visit the RDFRS offical website at
http://richarddawkinsfoundation.org
or visit Richard Dawkins' official website at http://www.richarddawkins.net
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